This Season’s Designers
This year’s edition of the Berliner Salon brings together 45 designers presenting their work across fashion and accessories.
Scroll down to meet the designers and explore their work.
AfroBodega
AfroBodega is a sustainable BIPOC art collective based in Berlin since 2023. By only working with donated/self-produced fabrics every piece has its own storytelling and an elevated value from the black hands sewing each thread.
The collective uses fashion to center pride, identity, and resistance, while building space for collaboration and storytelling focused on black cultural narratives.
Alan Hamliko
My brand moves between jewelry and objects, with a focus on structure and tactility. Most pieces grow out of hands on experimentation with silver, occasionally extending to ceramics, porcelain, wood, glass, and other metals. Inspired by nature and everyday objects, the work finds a balance between design and sculpture.
Aleksander Kudrischow
Aleksander Kudrischow designs garments at the intersection of playfulness, precision, and purpose. Based in Berlin, he creates fashion that communicates softly but clearly, blending refined tailoring with concept-driven design. His work focuses on wearability without compromising depth, crafting pieces that invite quiet attention rather than demand it.
AUTEL
AUTEL stands for reshaping ceremonial wear as a versatile option for everyday expression. The label’s focus primarily revolves around offering wedding attire that transcends traditional gender norms. Its modular concept allows seamless integration of distinct pieces, fostering versatility for various occasions beyond the wedding day.
Avgvst
Avgvst Berlin was founded in 2019 by Natalia Bryantseva. The brand explores and reimagines timeless shapes spotted in museums, placing them into a modern context. Avgvst describes itself as old and new, simple and complex, combining beauty and disorder in its designs.
azura
azura idealises organic materials whilst paying homage to the aspects of heritage and nature, incorporating a rich path of storytelling through silhouettes and textures. The most important thing in azura's fashion is emotive processing through the origins of craftsmanship and raw materials.
Carolin Dieler
Es beginnt alles mit einer Idee. Vielleicht willst du ein Unternehmen gründen. Vielleicht möchtest du ein Hobby in etwas Größeres verwandeln. Oder vielleicht hast du ein kreatives Projekt, das du mit der Welt teilen möchtest. Was auch immer es ist – die Art und Weise, wie du deine Geschichte online vermittelst, kann einen gewaltigen Unterschied ausmachen.
Christiane Schwambach
A love letter to nature. How can we translate the mindful act of collecting into circular design today? The result are luxury accessories and clothing that combine the knowledge of the past with responsibility for the future.
www.christianeschwambach.com
@christianeschwambach
Clara Rathke
My first Collection „Unfolding, dark to light“ is dedicated to the Theme of hope and trust. It showcases the Beauty of development though a process of growth, shown through every look of the collection, developing from dark to light.
David Samens
As a designer I try to combine my technical interest and historical inspiration. My focus lies in elegant silhouettes and dark fabrics.
Des FILLES désir
des FILLES désir is a Berlin-founded conceptual womenswear brand with an experimental and innovative approach to making clothes. The label focuses on unexpected silhouettes, volume, and material textures, offering considered alternatives to mass-produced fashion. As part of the slow fashion movement, founder and designer Adrian Stoica creates carefully crafted garments made to last, positioned between clarity, sensuality, and form.
Elodie Carstensen
Elodie Carstensen is a Berlin‐based demi‐couture label and laboratory where neo‐romanticism meets futurism, creating made‐to‐order collections and collaborative, immersive performances.
www.elodiecarstensen.com
@elodie.carstensen
Felicitas Seidler
Felicitas Seidler is a Berlin-based goldsmith and jewellery designer who has been running her label since 2008, creating seasonless series strongly influenced by her background in architecture. Her designs revolve around construction, proportion, and a clear sense of form. The minimalist, sculptural pieces of the label’s collection are handcrafted in her Berlin studio and fuse traditional techniques of the craft with modern technology.
www.felicitasseidler.com
@felicitasseidler
Haus Linsenhoff
HAUS LINSENHOFF is a couture house founded by Liselott Marie Linsenhoff that unites French craftsmanship with German precision. The brand stands for a new, conscious form of couture—a fusion of art, activism, and craftsmanship. With a clear focus on women’s rights, HAUS LINSENHOFF aims to use fashion as a voice for social issues—not only to raise awareness, but to actively contribute to solving global challenges related to women’s rights.
Helen Eisen
Helen Eisen is an independent Berlin based slow fashion brand that merges artistic design with sustainable, innovative craftsmanship. Positioned at the intersection of fashion and art, the label explores individuality, identity, and contemporary social narratives.
www.heleneisen.com
@heleneisen_designs
Inlé Studio
Inlé Studio is all about the hidden and forgotten. The designer Melanie Parzenczewski revives old crafting techniques like bobbin lace that have widely fallen into oblivion, creating space for cultural continuity in a time of fast change. Inlé Studio flows between rememberance, identity and possibilty, always moving within the tension between chaos and order while connecting historical and subcultural influences with comfort, timelessness and a love for details.
IVANSU
IVANSU is a contemporary jewelry label by artist Radha Díaz Hublitz. Handcrafted silver pieces are inspired by nature and the emotions that shape our inner world, expressed through organic lines, reduced silhouettes, and raw textures. Timeless designs stand for clarity, individuality, and contemporary elegance, created to honour the body.
J.A.I.W
J.A.I.W. is a sustainable fashion label at the intersection of textile art and wearability, inspired by the slug as a symbol of vulnerability, softness, and transformation. Through slow, tactile processes and thoughtfully chosen materials, the brand creates emotionally resonant garments.
jb archive
Jb archive is an avant-garde fashion brand from Berlin focused on experimental materials, bold silhouettes, and uncompromising craftsmanship. The brand explores the tension between utility and expression, creating pieces that feel both raw and refined.
Jon Liesenfeld
Jon Liesenfeld explores human relationships and social structures between generations through intricate, one-of-a-kind garments that blend tradition with innovation. With a focus on experimental surfaces and unconventional materials, each piece showcases avant-garde craftsmanship, elaborate fabric manipulations, and a deep reflection on identity, purpose, and humility.
Klara Schmidt
Quirky, childlike and offbeat, Klara Schmidt has studied fashion design in Munich, London - and now Berlin. Her antecedent, bionomic and narrative approach playfully addresses political issues and profound subjects.
Lau de Sousa
Lau de Sousa is a Portuguese fashion designer based in Berlin, working with an experimental, material-driven approach. Her work transforms flat surfaces into organic, sculptural forms through hands-on experimentation and techniques such as kirigami.
www.laucdesousa.wixsite.com
@laucdesousa
Laura Obst
Laura Obst creates fashion that unites femininity, function, and resilience. Drawing inspiration from the legacy of working women, her designs are timeless yet progressive, crafted with intention and purpose. Every garment reflects confidence, strength, and quiet power.
Lealabob
lealabob is a Berlin based ready-to-wear brand, with deep influences of sportswear coalescing twists of individual style, nostalgia and the future, we explore varied techniques to deconstruct the idea of conventional clothing in a raw and playful way. We navigate innovative solutions to create bold statement pieces balancing chaos and clarity while maintaining wearability and functionality in each garment.
We work with upcycling and discarded materials, using leftover pieces and fabric scraps as we work towards zero waste, creating unique, one-of-a-kind pieces as well as limited made-to-order series produced in our Berlin studio.
Lena Vuotta
LENA VOUTTA is a Berlin-based fashion designer and textile artist whose work combines contemporary design with traditional craftsmanship. Her fashion and knitwear label focuses on handcrafted, one-of-a-kind statement pieces, including hand-knotted vests and coats with long, colorful fringes. These signature designs offer vegan, sculptural alternatives to fur.
Lennart Bohle
Lennart Bohle is a german fashion designer and state-certified tailor based in Pforzheim. His work is defined by a fusion of traditional craftsmanship, sculptural silhouettes, and digital experimentation. With a strong focus on tailoring and couture, he explores the intersection of historical techniques and future-forward aesthetics
www.lennartbohle.com
@lennart_bohle
Levent Altin
A long-term passion for vintage and antique fabrics - such as tablecloths and bed linens - brought this project to life. A deep sentimentality for their unique techniques and beauty sparked the desire to preserve and transform them into something new. One-of-a-kind garments composed entirely of vintage textiles interpretated in basic and timeless pieces.
Lion Busch
Lion Busch is a Berlin-based brand exploring shape, color, and movement. Wearable yet sculptural, the designs shift and flow with the body. The approach is always experimental and non-conforming, resulting in clothes that empower the wearer.
www.lionbusch.myportfolio.com
@lion_busch
Lithium Oak
Lithium Oak merges the raw allure of fantasy with a sharp, contemporary edge. Dream-wrought designs explore worlds out of reach with symbolism and unapologetic femininity.
Luis Amslgruber
Luis Amslgruber challenges the meaning of clothing by questioning established norms of how garments are supposed to look, function, and be worn. His work explores the tension between tradition and everyday life, reinterpreting construction, purpose, and use. Drawing inspiration from imperfection, mistakes, and discomfort, he deliberately breaks conventions, transforming errors and unease into tools for rethinking form, function, and cultural expectations.
Marie-Louise Müller
Berlin-based slow fashion designer Marie-Louise Müller defines her handcraft by treating time as a material, relying on the calm precision of hundreds of hours invested in individual pieces. Working exclusively with natural fibers, zero-waste techniques, and upcycling, she brings life to her vision of escapist worlds populated with fewer items, but stronger signatures
Nadine Aurin
Nadine Aurin is a Berlin-based fashion label founded in 2024. The label approaches fashion as a medium for reflection, activism, and transformation, engaging with social and political themes through a conceptual practice. It combines contemporary design with traditional craftsmanship and upcycling, using clothing to create meaning beyond aesthetics and encourage position-taking.
www.nadineaurin.com
@nadineaurin
Nethanel F. Kantor
The exhibited works originate from a project engaging with the notion of transgression. The garments are developed from a series of preliminary object studies, created through an improvised process using found, everyday materials. These materials were intuitively assembled into small-scale objects and spatially expansive forms, allowing spontaneous constructions, material tensions, and unexpected relationships to emerge.
Through recontextualising, repurposing, and elevating the found, the works challenge conventional hierarchies of material value and form.
Nicole Kiesel
Nicole Kiesel utilizes tedious repetitive processes of traditional handcraft techniques to shape the surface of the garments, reflecting on the history of unseen female labour and acts of care. The choice of the technique is based on the unique behaviour of the fabric, resulting in a piece inviting to be touched.
Oxana Designs
Oxana Designs explores unusual pattern design that shape the space between the garment and the body, using materials outside their usual context. As a result, dramatic, playful and feminine silhouettes make the wearer feel strong, protected, and confident.
PARK217 Berlin
PARK217 is Mar Suárez and Michael Gentz. Originally from Barcelona and now based in Berlin, they work with materials that allow intuitive, soft, unfolding compositions to form (porcelain, glass, tin). All pieces are designed and crafted in-house.
www.park217berlin.com
@atelier_park217
Paula Kunkel
As a textile artist, Paula Kunkel playfully connects with what has been overlooked – placing it in a new context to create mental dead ends and to show: it was never without value.
She listens – to the fabric, the person, the moment – and from that, she
www.paulakunkel.com
@paula_kunkel
POOR[arzhan]GY
POOR[arzhan]GY moves between blue-collar reality and white-collar symbolism — where uniforms speak and work becomes identity. We turn rawness, function, and the quiet dignity of labor into womenswear that challenges class boundaries. Our pieces transform effort into concept and routine into design, finding beauty in honesty, structure, and the stories carried by those who build the world.
Sofia Hermens Fernandez
Sofia Hermens Fernandez work centers around the images of Western girlhood and how they can be subverted into a feminist attitude through extensive use of handcraft. Sofia actively embraces handcraft techniques like hand knitting, hand felting and embroidery, that have been marginalised historically as women’s work and that played a big part in the former education of girls and femininity. The aim of Sofia’s work is to create garments that challenge traditional notions of femininity while celebrating its joy.
SPSR.Studio
SPSR.Studio [ˈʃpiːsɐ] s a rebellious crew of Travelling Streetwear Tailors. We don’t move with the industry rhythm. We show up where no one expects us. Our pieces blend street pulse with tailored structure — custom-built, small-batch, no fillers. We’re here to flip how conscious people connect with clothing: real dialogue, one-to-one co-creation, zero waste. Everything customizable. Everything on demand.
Steigleder
The surname Steigleder refers to a functional leather strip used in horse riding and symbolises a clear, handcrafted approach rooted in material awareness. He works at the intersection of textile and fashion design. The pieces are primarily created from industrial surplus materials and produced as durable one of a kind garments.
www.steigleder.online
@luis.steigleder
Timo Kurz
The brand’s artistic direction approaches fashion as a vulnerable, craft-based practice rooted in tailoring, narrative, and material exploration. Authenticity is expressed through sustainable construction methods and conscious material choices, forming a world-building approach where garments carry process and move between wearable design and conceptual object.
TRINH MINH TRANG DUONG
Trinh Minh Trang Duong explores identity as something worn, shaped by culture, history, and expectation. Through contrasts of softness and structure, it challenges imposed role and reclaims agency through embodied resistance.
Victoria Rost
Pushing boundaries with a language of shape, Victoria Rost creates new silhouettes for contemporary fashion. Each piece unites craftsmanship, simplicity and bold elegance: rethinking the garment, defining shape as a new form of expression. Rost is shape in play.
Zan Zalif
Zan Zalif is a menswear and womenswear label with a romantic avant-garde spirit, driven by storytelling and organic, sculptural silhouettes. Blending South Asian heritage with Western contemporary fashion, the brand creates expressive, poetic pieces that blurs the lines between art and clothing.